Glyph of no escape + Freezing trap gives your attacks 100% crit chance on the trapped target. Apply black arrow and then serpent sting to a trapped mob and you'll have 2 100% crit dots chipping away on a target while you focus on another. Black arrow first, as it doesnt break the trap before the first tick, giving you time to get a serpent sting up aswell. (Trap also procs a free LnL ofc.)

Just be careful to not break the trap with auto shots. Mouseover/focus macros might be useful.

i tho about that glyph, are you sure they both stay at 100% crit? what other mobs you can CC to take advantage of this? because i only trap on wave 6 (doublé healer) and wave 8 healer in the middle.

i tho about that glyph, are you sure they both stay at 100% crit? what other mobs you can CC to take advantage of this? because i only trap on wave 6 (doublé healer) and wave 8 healer in the middle.

I've never had to use trap on anything. Just Multi-shot the mobs in the middle on wave 6 and the first 2 heals will be targeted on them then burn down one healer while keeping SrS on the other one. On wave 8 just interrupt the first heal and it will be dead before it tries to cast another one.

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i tho about that glyph, are you sure they both stay at 100% crit? what other mobs you can CC to take advantage of this? because i only trap on wave 6 (doublé healer) and wave 8 healer in the middle.

I tested it out earlier and it works as advertised. It can be tricky to get both BA and SrS up without breaking trap unless you use a macro (too lazy) or time between autoshots. I don't think it's worth the hassle usually. I use frost trap for speedy black ice glyph most of the time, but I've been trying to work it into the waves that I struggle on (8/9).

One thing to note, is gear should be a low priority concern.
If you're having problems, I would suggest that it's largely execution of the attempt.
Obviously having good procs is nice and all, ideally a 1min CD or so.
But other than that just make sure you have Hit/Exp cap, and that you're not using the Legendary Meta.

However, I'll log out in the gear I use in a moment.
Boaring on Tichondrius US is my Hunter (Would just link armory but new account)

My Spec has some reasoning to it though.
Survival
- Strong AoE and pretty controlled burst (2nd LnL is RNG but good enough)

Glyphs are kind of whatever, but quality of life moreso than anything for me.
I generally run
Scatter
- Extra Range for interrupting with it is nice
Black Ice
- Just for mobility
Ice Trap
- Extra range for Black Ice to be effective

With the current strat I use, pretty sure I could reliably do 70+ if nothing goes wrong, I'm playing well, etc.
However 80+ seems like it would be raw RNG with LnL procs almost.

Originally Posted by Raidn

Neat little trick I came up with for maximizing damage:

Glyph of no escape + Freezing trap gives your attacks 100% crit chance on the trapped target. Apply black arrow and then serpent sting to a trapped mob and you'll have 2 100% crit dots chipping away on a target while you focus on another. Black arrow first, as it doesnt break the trap before the first tick, giving you time to get a serpent sting up aswell. (Trap also procs a free LnL ofc.)

Just be careful to not break the trap with auto shots. Mouseover/focus macros might be useful.

That's pretty clever, haven't tried that one yet because I didn't consider it possibly keeping the 100% Crit on dots.

The most "clever" thing I do, is one second before a Wave starts, or a Barrier on a Sha breaks, I throw an Ice Trap to force LnL (Without Black Arrow up after the first full duration on Shas)
Example opener on Shas
Sting
Arrow
Explosive
Continue as per usual, barrier is falling in 10-ish, hold all abilities and keep focus high, 2 sec left, prep Ice Trap, shoot at 1sec, Explosive, Glaive Toss, Explosive x2, Black Arrow, Fervor, Explosive
and then dump from there and hope for a LnL proc

Oh, and there's also another trick I'm not sure how many people use. Makes 8's a hell of a lot easier.
So, on the Wave previous, I nuke an Amber-Weaver first and the other one free casts until the end essentially, I just make sure he casts an orb sub 13sec remaining in the wave and use it on the Healer in the next wave (Deterrence to make sure it hits him, and Ice Trap to have a LnL ready)
Allows me to use the other Berserk on a different wave, but for now I still have it for the wave anyway due to possible RNG with the Amber-Weaver casting previous to that wave.

So, here's the awful quality video.
/watch?v=TaLqW4JL-zs

I'll see about recording a better version that isn't doing all kinds of dumb things tomorrow or something.
AKA will spend more than 2min setting it up and actually look at a test recording.

Again, it's an awful attempt as far as pushing the class goes, didn't focus on the run at all.
But it's more or less how I do each Wave.

Oh, and there's also another trick I'm not sure how many people use. Makes 8's a hell of a lot easier.
So, on the Wave previous, I nuke an Amber-Weaver first and the other one free casts until the end essentially, I just make sure he casts an orb sub 13sec remaining in the wave and use it on the Healer in the next wave (Deterrence to make sure it hits him, and Ice Trap to have a LnL ready)
Allows me to use the other Berserk on a different wave, but for now I still have it for the wave anyway due to possible RNG with the Amber-Weaver casting previous to that wave..

I do the same on 7->8 some times, but it can be tricky to force him to cast late enough that the orb won't despawn, while still safely killing him before the timer. I've gotten a lot more efficient at wave 7 and usually have a fair bit of time left over so maybe I can force it with some CC on him.
I've started using beserking on 9 and 10. It isn't really needed on 5 if you go hard, and you can use the same delayed amber trap trick on 4->5 if you are cutting it too close.

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Just got wave 68, missed out on 69 by like 1 GCD and pretty confident I coulda got to wave 78 after that.

After reading how Nabz deals with Sha I was able to kill them way more efficiently, I'm not sure I even need Beserking for wave #0 any more. One extra thing I do is drop an explosive trap on him around 32 seconds, the more dots rolling when the shield drops the merrier.

Wave 8 DPS check is brutal, even with Beserking. Probably need the amber trap trick from 7->8 in order to beat the DPS check on 8 reliably after wave 60.

Congrats mediic
Still trying to convince myself to go in there and do some more attempts.

I'm still not too sure about changing up where CDs can be used since I haven't experimented with much unfortunately.
Still keeping an eye out for one of the top Hunters to post a high wave video or something.
Would be nice to see more strategies.

I fixed my recording issue and decided to do PGs since my gear was all set up from helping a guildy with some CMs.
I beat my previous score (which was still the #1 NA score suprisingly, EU hunters too strong) by 1 wave, getting to wave 69 and here's the video.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63JNERYdsms

Definitely room for improvement but my brain starts to fry after on the attempts that last over an hour. I wish there was a way to skip the first 40 waves or so.
I'd looooooove to see a video from one of the EU guys breaking wave 80+.